Starbuck (movie)

"Starbuck" is a big, fat French-Canadian hug of a movie, a sperm-donations-gone-wrong farce that manages the occasional belly laugh but also offers moving takes on parenthood, family and what it means to grow up. David Wozniak (Patrick Huard) makes one wonder what the French word for "galoot" is. He's the black sheep in his Montreal family, a 30-something slacker who can't do the easiest job in the family's butcher shop right — driving the delivery truck. He's forever taking the truck for personal errands, forgetting to do this or that, and then lying the moment he's found out. He's in hock to loan sharks. His idea for making...

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"Starbuck" is a big, fat French-Canadian hug of a movie, a sperm-donations-gone-wrong farce that manages the occasional belly laugh but also offers moving takes on parenthood, family and what it means to grow up.
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